Great! Thank you Matt.
Matt McCutchen-7 wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:24 -0700, rumcho wrote: >> Is there a "pretend" option in rsync that will just show the transfers it >> is >> going to do without actually doing any transfers? > > The --dry-run option disables actually doing the transfers. You would > use it in combination with whatever output options you like (-v, -i, > --out-format, etc.). > >> Or even better, after it shows the transfers it is about to do to prompt >> if >> user would like to proceed. > > That is not currently implemented. One way this could work is to use > --delay-updates --delete-after and prompt the user just before the > delayed update/delete pass. If the user cancels, staged files will be > left in .~tmp~ directories in the destination, but these can easily be > deleted by a shell script. > > Matt > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22pretend%22-option-in-rsync--tp20097334p20103887.html Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
